Incident Response Security Engineer

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With more than 4,000 customers and ARR that has grown over 250 percent year over year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads.

The company’s sustained, accelerating momentum was recently validated by a $400M Series D financing round. Over the past three months, customers including Capital One, Lovable, Decagon, Polymarket, and Airwallex have adopted the platform or expanded existing deployments. These customers join an established base of AI innovators and global brands such as Meta, Cursor, Sony, and Tesla.

We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data. Come be a part of our journey!

The Security Team is responsible for providing key security capabilities covering application, cloud and enterprise security, incident response, detection and GRC. Our team is looking for an experienced, hands-on security practitioner, who will drive the adoption of modern security processes and tooling, with focus on supporting our detection and incident response capabilities.

• Develop processes, tooling and automation to scale incident management response and mitigate risks to the business

• Collaborate with other security functions, engineering, product, support, business operations to identify appropriate detection use cases and automation

• Apply a threat modeling centric approach to incident detection and response

• Maintain security logging platform

• Stay up to date with the latest threats, attack vectors to improve our detection mechanisms and attack surface management

• Handle information security events and incidents across the ClickHouse products and services

• Background in product security / red teaming / penetration testing / threat modeling, combined with incident detection and response experience

• Strong knowledge of and experience with one or more cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience securing large-scale customer-facing cloud infrastructures

• Significant development and automation experience; preference for Golang and Python

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

• Previous contributions to open source projects

• Security or cloud related certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure)

The typical starting salary for this role in the US is

$169,150—$191,250 USD

The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is

$169,150—$225,000 USD

For roles based in the United States, the typical starting salary range for this position is listed above. In certain locations, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York City Metro Area, a premium market range may apply, as listed.

These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. The actual compensation may be higher or lower than the amounts listed, and the ranges may be subject to future adjustments.

An individual’s placement within the range